The following documents are among the main outcomes of the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) that took place in December 2003 in Geneva. Some documents and reports are not available yet. We will make them available here as soon as we get them. If you know of other documents that might be missing here, please let us know at <wsis (at) boell.de>.
Official Summit Documents
WSIS Declaration of Principles "Building the Information Society: a global challenge in the new Millennium" Geneva, 12 December 2003 doc | pdf (english)
WSIS Plan of Action Geneva, 12 December 2003 doc | pdf (english)
Civil Society Joint Summit Documents
Civil Society Statement to the Final Plenary of the WSIS, 12 December 2003
Civil Society Summit Declaration "Shaping Information Societies for Human Needs" Adopted by the WSIS Civil Society Plenary Geneva, 11 December 2003 pdf: english | espanol | français | Press Statement final corrected version, 25 February 2004 rtf: english | espanol | français pdf: english | espanol | français | arabic Declaration Highlights | Endorsements
Civil Society Essential Benchmarks refined version, Geneva, 11 December 2003 rtf: english | espanol | français
Civil Society Side and Preparatory Documents
Statement on Communication Rights World Forum on Communication Rights Geneva, 11 December 2003 html
Geneva Declaration on Accessible Information Society Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society Geneva, 12 December 2003 rtf (english)
Geneva Declaration of the Global Forum of Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society Geneva, 11 December 2003 rtf (english)
Declaration of the World Summit of Cities and Local Authorities on the Information Society Lyon, 5 December 2003 rtf (english)
Youth Forum Declaration: "Res, non verba" ITU World Telecom World 2003 Geneva, 12-18 October 2003 rtf (english)
Charter of Civil Rights for a Sustainable Knowledge Society German Civil Society WSIS Coordination Group Version 3.0, July 2003 pdf: deutsch | english | espanol rtf: deutsch | english | espanol
Swiss Civil Society Platform Position on the Information Society Comunica-CH: Swiss Civil Society Platform for the Information Society rtf (english)
Statement to the WSIS: "Towards a New Age of Information and Knowledge for All" Club of Rome, 14 August 2003 pdf (english)
Civil Society Caucus and Working Group Documents
Due to the huge volume of civil society content produced in the different groups and caucuses, we can not maintain a list here at the moment. See the individual caucus / working group web sites at http://www.wsis-cs.org/ for some of the documents.
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